Great Britain national rugby sevens team
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| Union | British Olympic Association |
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| Coach(es) | Simon Amor |
| Captain(s) | Tom Mitchell |
| First international | |
 Australia 21–0 Great Britain  (25 August 2001) |
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| Largest win | |
Great Britain 43–0 Poland  (9 July 2016) |
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| Largest defeat | |
 South Africa 52–0 Great Britain (23 June 2005) |
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The Great Britain national rugby sevens team is the men's Olympic representative team of Great Britain at the rugby sevens tournament at the Summer Olympic Games. After having played at the World Games in 2001 and 2005, they made their Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where they won the silver medal, losing the final to Fiji.
When rugby sevens was admitted to the Summer Olympics in 2009, it was not initially known how Great Britain could qualify. As England, Wales and Scotland; three of the nations that make up Great Britain all compete separately in international competition, it was suggested that if any of them gained a qualifying spot then Great Britain would qualify. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), stated that Great Britain must select a lead nation to be the only one able to gain the qualification spot. The individual British rugby unions selected England to be the lead nation as the Rugby Football Union was the only British union to fund a full-time rugby sevens programme. England secured Great Britain's qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics by finishing fourth in the 2015 Sevens World Series.
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